friend was coming back from La. and stopped in Scott at Best Stop. i asked him to pick up a pound of cracklins and a boudin stuffed chicken. dang cracklins were more $$ than the chicken! $19.50 per pound. chicken was $21. i got a little over a lb of cracklins and it came to $22+. jeez. never again.

is there a shortage of pigs?

Supply and demand!!!

Go to a good hispanic market. They're less than $3 a pound still hot and fresh. The big meaty ones are out of this world good.

The big meaty ones are $8.99 at the Hispanic market by my work. They are the best I have had though.

Those things are good, but every time I eat them, I expect to have a heart attack.

chicharones! you're right, i never thought of that. those things are killer in beans!

Get the meaty ones and chop them up to put in a chicharon and egg breakfast taco. Amazingly good. Michoacana Meat Market has them.